Ayse Alyzée CEYHAN

Ayse Alyzée CEYHAN
Contact: [email protected]
EXPERTISE
Security and security technologies:
 Identification and surveillance technologies
 Biometrics
 Critical infrastructure protection
 Illegal use of the cyberspace
 American and European security policies and frameworks
 Border security, airport security, aircraft security.
 Risk and predictive analysis
 Ethical and societal impacts of security technologies
 Privacy, data protection
 Socio-philosophy of technology
 Security R&D
TEACHINGS
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Sciences Po Paris (since 1997):
 Security Studies: Security and Technology, Intelligence and Technology, Theories of
Security, Security, Surveillance and Identification.
 International Relations: Theories of International Relations, Sociology of International
Relations, World Politics, Conflict Analysis and Regulation.
 Philosophy: Political and Philosophical Issues, Public Philosophy.
 Political Science: Introduction to Political Science, Globalization and Political Science.
RESEARCH ON SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
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Dr. Ceyhan has been working on security technologies since 1996. She started her research with
several field studies conducted at the Mexican-American border where she observed and
analyzed the US surveillance, identification and control practices. It is there that she first
“encountered” biometric systems adopted by the US Border Patrol to identify and control border
crossers. This study enabled her to gain knowledge on the implementation of security
technologies and to frame the principal axes of her work on “security, technology and society”.
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Basing on this experience, in 2001 she created at Sciences Po the course Security, Surveillance
and Identification and published the outcomes of her research in scientific journals.
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In 2005 she was selected to lead a research project on security technologies for the Center for
Prospective Studies of the French Gendarmerie (CPGN) entitled “Gendarmerie and Technology”.
The objective of this project was to examine the adoption of new technologies by the
Gendarmerie and analyze its organizational, operational, strategic and practical impacts. As part
of this project, she conducted several field researches at airports where identification (such as
biometrics) and surveillance technologies are implemented and at security technology
companies in France and in the US where these technologies are designed and produced.
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She then broadened the scope of her research to European R&D programmes on security, border
surveillance, antiterrorism and fight against organised crime, as well as to ethical and societal
impacts of the security technologies.
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In 2007, drawing upon her research on the technologization of security, she was commissioned
by the Administrator of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) to create the research
program « Security – Technology – Society » (STS) as well as the Security and Technology
Research and Expertise Group (GEEST www.geest-msh.fr). The objective of this program is to
examine the root causes and the design of security technologies such as biometrics, intelligent
surveillance systems, dataveillance technologies etc, and analyze their political, juridical and
economic impacts.
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In 2008 (January 23 – 24) she organized at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) the
Biometrics Conference (Colloque Biometrie champs et enjeux) bringing together academics,
security agents, national and European data protection commissionners, as well as security
companies’ representatives.
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In 2008, she created the courses Theories of Security and Security and Technology at Sciences Po
Paris.
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In 2010-2011, as part of the activities of the Security-Technology-Society program (MSH) she
started a research on the epistemic and scientific dimensions of the security research and
launched a conference series on “research in security and security technologies”.
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In 2011 (May 13) with a group of engineers and social scientists, she organized the security
research workshop Security research; for a co-design involving SHS and applied sciences where
the aim was to investigate the epistemic, methodological and normative conditions of Social
Sciences and Applied Sciences collaboration. This workshop brought together the EU Commission
representatives, academics, businesses and law enforcement agencies.
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In 2012 (March 23), she was commissioned by the French National Research Agency (ANR) to
organize the workshop Privacy-by-Design: putting technology at the service of privacy. This
workshop brought together French and international experts specializing in new technologies and
privacy with social scientists, engineers, business representatives and organizations of data
protection. Its objective was to examine the integration of privacy in technological solutions and
examine its practical, normative, scientific and legal issues.
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In 2012 she created at Sciences Po the course Intelligence and Technology.
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In 2013 (April 13) she organized at Sciences Po the workshop Intelligence Technologies in
Practice: Meeting with Technology Producers, Practitioners and Students. This workshop brought
together engineers from Thales, Cassidian, Astrium, Morpho and intelligence practitioners. Its
aim was to examine the technical specificities of cyber intelligence, drones and satellites as well
as the use of biometrics for intelligence purposes
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She is member of COST – Living in Surveillance Societies (LISS); New Transparency: Surveillance
and Social Sorting (chaired by David Lyon); Société de l’Electricité et de l’Electronique et des
Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (SEE).
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She is member of the 2014 ANR Scientific Committee of the security research (Freedom and
security of the EU, its citizens and residents)
EDUCATION
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Post-doc internship : EU Commission, Bruxelles (DG I et DG XII)
PhD Political Science (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Master in Political Science (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
BA Law – option International Relations (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
BS Law (University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne)
Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul
Lycée Jean de Lafontaine Paris
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
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« Renseignement au prisme de la technologie” (2014), Revue de l’ENA special issue on
intelligence, July.
« Le corps biométrique comme source de certitude de la modernité réflexive », (forthcoming), in
C.Lobet-Maris et al. (Ed), Corps et technologies. Dénouer les fils entre corporéalité et technologies
contemporaines, Bruxelles, Berlin, Oxford, Peter Lang.
« Surveillance as Biopower », (2012), in K.Ball, K.D.Haggerty and D.Lyon (Eds), Routledge
International Handbook of Surveillance Studies, Routledge.
Identification biométrique, (2011), Paris, Editions de la MSH (co-editor).
Acceptabilité de la biométrie: les linéaments d’un cadre analytique” (2011), in A.Ceyhan (coeditor), Identification biométrique, Editions de la MSH, 2011.
« Identité, Identification et surveillance : enjeux à l’heure de la biométrie » (2010), in Identification
et surveillance des individus, Edition de la Bibliothèque Publique d’Information/Centre Pompidou.
“Privacy in France in the Age of Security and Information Technologies” (2010), in D.Lyon,
E.Zureik, L.Harling-Stalky, E.Smith, Y.Chan (Eds), Privacy, Surveillance and the Globalization of
Personal Information, Mc Gill-Queen’s University. Press.
“Les technologies européennes de contrôle de l’immigration: vers une gestion électronique des
“personnes à risque” (2010), Réseaux, no 159.
« Lutte contre le terrorisme : la technologie n’est pas neutre » (2009), Revue Internationale et
Stratégique no 74, Juin.
« Technologization of Security: Management of Uncertainty and Risk in the Age of Biometrics »
(2008), Surveillance & Society. No 5(2).
« Technologie et sécurité : une gouvernance libérale dans un contexte d’incertitudes » (2006),
Cultures & Conflits, no. 64.
« Comment prouver l’identité d’un individu ? » (2006), Revue de la Gendarmerie Nationale,
no.217.
« Identification et surveillance à l’heure de la biométrie » (2006), Cultures & Conflits, no. 64.
Identifier et surveiller : les technologies de sécurité (2006), Cultures & Conflits, no 64 (Editor).
« Policing by Dossiers: Identification and Surveillance in an Era of Uncertainty and Fear » (2005),
in D.Bigo, E.Guild (eds.), Controlling Borders, London, Ashgate.
« La Biométrie une technologie pour gérer les incertitudes de la modernité contemporaine »
(2005), Cahiers de l’INHES, Printemps no.56.
Gendarmerie et technologies (2005), Report for the Centre de Prospective de la gendarmerie
Nationale, Ministère de la défense (Under the direction of).
« Sécurité et frontières aux Etats-Unis après le 11 Septembre » (2004), Cultures & Conflits.
« Terrorisme, immigration et patriotisme. Les identités sous surveillance » (2002), Cultures &
Conflits, no. 44.
« The Securitization of Immigration in Western Societies: Ambivalent Discourses and Policies »
(2002), Alternatives, no. 27 (co-author).
« L’ennemi intérieur, une construction politique et discursive » (2001) Cultures&Conflits, no 43,
(co-author).
« Analyser la sécurité: Dillon, Waever, Williams et les autres" (1998), Cultures & Conflits, no :
31/32.
« Etats-Unis: frontières sécurisées, identités contrôlées? » (1997), Cultures & Conflits, no 26/27.
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« Contrôles de l’immigration : mythes et réalités » (co-autheur) (1997), Cultures & Conflits, no
26/27.
« Emulation sécuritaire franco-américaine, (1996), Le Monde Diplomatique, octobre.
« Le communautarisme et la question de la reconnaissance" (1994), Cultures & Conflits, no 12.
« La fin de la bipolarité et incertitudes américaines" (1993), Esprit, février.
Avrupa Topluluklari Terimleri Sözlügü (Lexicon of European Terms), (1991) Istanbul AFA yayinlari.